> I don't understand why the first way is so much slower. I have no obvious answers, but a couple suggestions:
1. Can you anchor the pattern at the beginning of the line? (use match() instead of search()) 2. Does it get faster it you eliminate the "(.*)" part of the pattern? It seems that if you find a line matching the first part of the pattern, you could just as easily split the line yourself instead of creating a group. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
